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Société Jersiaise: jersiais is the demonym in French from Jersey The Wace monument in the Royal Square: "Jo di e dirai ke jo sui Wace de l’isle de Gersui" I say and will say that I am Wace from the Island of Jersey. Andium (?) 4th century [2] insula Gersoi 1022/1026. [3] insula Gerseii, var. Gersey, Gersei, Gersoii 1042. [4] Gersus ~1070. [5]
However, from the 16th to 19th centuries, Jersey became home to French religious refugees, particularly Protestants after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes. [153] From the early 19th century, the island's economic boom attracted economic migrants. By 1841, of the 47,544 population, 11,338 were born in the British Isles outside of Jersey.
Jersey is a British Crown dependency and is not part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Census In the most recent 2011 Jersey census, 46.4% or 45,379 people self-identified their ethnic origins as Jersey, a numerical increase of 790 people over the 2001 census.
Name Image Coordinates Area () Notes Minquiers [13] : 48°58′14″N 2°3′43″W: Other islets nearby include Maîtresse Île / Maîtr' Île, Les Maisons, Le Niêsant, Les Faucheurs, La Haute Grune
The Channel Islands [note 1] are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands.
The Crown Dependencies [c] are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, both located in the English Channel and together known as the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
The government in Paris has warned of ‘retaliatory action’ after the UK turned down more than 30 licence applications by French small boats.
The English language has been allowed in parliamentary debates in the States of Jersey since February 2, 1900. Most signs are written in English, sometimes with French or Jèrriais subtitling. There are around 107,000 people in Jersey, and 20% are of British (traditionally English-speaking) descent.